Apoplexy posted:

Speaking of murdered people

https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/866446171820183552

What were you saying about political correctness being literally worse than fascism, Spunky Psycho Ho

8-Bit Scholar posted:

I can't help but notice that there was a string of race riots during the Obama administration, with one of the most poignant images I saw being the announcement that Michael Brown's killer had gotten off, and with Obama limply calling for peace and civility, on the other side of the screen there were images of people raising a ruckus in front of City Hall.

Armed police firing tear gas into protesters. Barack "we tortured some folks" Obama telling everyone to settle down, while the nation smolders and he could have done something too, but what does Barry Obama care about some hood rats in fuckall Missouri? The best he did--the sign perhaps of an aching conscience--was pardon the lifetime sentences of marijuana convicts, but that's a pretty petty gesture, to treat the symptom and not the disease.

God you know what really infuriates me the most about this electoral season it's that only now, after endless years of bitching about gender pronouns and safe spaces and dancing with the stars only now are you loving people suddenly "deeply concerned" about abuses of federal overreach, about the state of race relations in a country that systematically arrests more black men than any other demographic, that cages more human beings than any other nation in the history of the world, and the only reason you care now is because the charming rear end in a top hat who was selling this to you went away and you don't like the next rear end in a top hat who everybody chose to replace him. Suddenly it's like you've always been concerned about civil liberties being violated, even as you blithely shrugged your shoulders when Bernie Sanders was hijacked by a fascist oval office, hemmed and hawed when Clinton's foundation was revealed to be a farce, and that emails leaked by the DNC directly allude to the President of the United States accepting payoffs from major banks which were proven completely correct after he was out of office and none of you loving cared

None of you cared until Trump took over, and now you're still trying to look down your noses at people, now you want desperately to believe in the hysteria the media is trying to whip up. You are ignoring ANY other troubling aspect of this current reality because you have been convinced, by either your wounded pride or the mass media itself, that Donald Trump is so very, positively dangerous to this country that ANY means to oust him from power is acceptable. The sheer insanity of this notion, particularly coupled by how openly corrupt teh Democratic Party was revealed to be this election, as a political outsider for the first time became elected President on a surge of widespread populist support (in every place besides NY and LA) is horrifying to me.

You don't see how this ends. Maybe you don't care. You haven't until now.

Like you all think the Fourth Reich is coming to America? Barack Obama is the guy who suspended habeas corpus. That's right, if Donald Trump takes the power to kidnap people and make them disappear to fascist extremes, you know damned well that it was your guy who gave him that ability.

DrPlump posted:

8-Bit Scholar posted:

I actually made the point of saying that BLM as an organization was loving awful at communicating their core message, which was that blacks are overwhelmingly targeted by law enforcement, and through a string of bad optics and likely genuine defamation actions, they had all of their momentum sucked out.

I voted for Obama because I felt he would, among other things, address and correct the War on Drugs. His failure to do this adds his name to the long list of men, mostly white men, who share the blame for every non-violent drug user killed or incarcerated in this country.

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God you know what really infuriates me the most about this electoral season it's that only now, after endless years of bitching about gender pronouns and safe spaces and dancing with the stars only now are you loving people suddenly "deeply concerned" about abuses of federal overreach, about the state of race relations in a country that systematically arrests more black men than any other demographic, that cages more human beings than any other nation in the history of the world, and the only reason you care now is because the charming rear end in a top hat who was selling this to you went away and you don't like the next rear end in a top hat who everybody chose to replace him

Snatch Duster posted:

How about ending the on-going genocide against Native Americans?

Snatch Duster posted:

the last large-scale massacre of native Americans by the US government was in 1924.

scrubs season six posted:

It's fake news. The actual numbers aren't worse than any other race per police interaction.

Blue Train posted:

Nah it's police shootings

The people shot were people

revmoo posted:

The Podesta and DNC leaks were a huge revelation and showed very non-subtle attempts at corrupting our democracy. Go do some reading and then you can come back and join the conversation. Just because Trump is a piece of poo poo doesn't mean the other side has been doing worse things. I swear, this election just broke everyone's brains.